Kagan Counts 6 Ginsburg Greatest Hits In Gender Bias Fight

Law360, New York (February 3, 2014, 10:23 PM EST) -- Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Monday evening detailed a half-dozen of her senior colleague Ruth Bader Ginsburg's "greatest hits," which over more than 40 years undercut bias against women in the workplace and elsewhere, but which, Kagan said, also illustrate the possibility that the progress could be undone.

From her work as a lawyer before the high court in Reed vs. Reed in 1971, a case that saw a 19th century Idaho law giving preference to men in estate planning struck down, to her dissent...